Sunday, June 5, 2011

It has been a long and grueling 54 hours for the participants of Triangle Startup Weekend. In just 24 minutes, we will begin the final presentations and you can watch the live blogging right here on DamondNollan.com. If you're interested in watching the live video feed, click here.

Marci and Ben, the 11 year old entrepreneurs, walk on stage to make a presentation and begin the startup presentations.

3:02 pm

Instructions: Each team has 5 minutes to make their presentations followed by 3 minutes of questioning by the judges.

3:06 pm

The presentations begin now...

5:22 pm

Completion of all 18 presentations. The judges will now deliberate and calculate the overall scores.

Startup Presentations
The follow presentations will happening in this order. I will be updating as the information becomes available.

MyFoodCosts.com
"Buying power through knowledge." The ability will include the ability to compare prices, consolidation of data related to food industry, and. market reports for the restaurant.

The service will be subscription based and cost, on average, about $75 per week.

To restaurants, it will empower the restaurant owners to take advantage of the buying power.

How will it work: Take paper invoices and scan them. Use cloud computer for storage and retrieval. The owner will then be able to see what they paid for supplies and then look at what local owners are paying. Additionally, it will provide industry average prices for supplies.

Carpool Portal

Create a straight forward way to do carpools.

Similar to Travelocity, users would enter their details: when they seek to travel and the like. Once entered, other users can search based travel criteria.

Would work with corporate partners to begin. Follow Twitter account at @carpoolportal

Swag App

Benjamin Brown, the 11 year old entrepreneur, makes a presentation on a mobile app that helps tweens (11-14) find style and places to buy new clothes. By taking pictures of current clothes in the closet, the app will help kids match clothes with what they currently have.

A social GPS game for the mobile phone. "A drinking club with a running problem."

The HARE (organizer) using their mobile phone, would check in and use an direction arrow. The hounds, using their mobile phones, would walk up the first check point on (Android or iPhone) and follow the clues. This is a walking/running activity.

This is a drinking game where the hare can leave a message to the hounds. There is a push notification that would tell other hounds where the "good" scent. Hares can use video, text, and other similar tools to communicate with hounds.

This app could also be useful in running groups.

As far as money is concerned, the price is free for players but $9.99 for developers.

Breaking up button is used to help make breaking up easier to do. It uses Facebook for validation. Once clicked, users would type in the person they wish to break up with partner (on Facebook) and it would update their wall. The breakup industry is 5.8 billion dollar industry.

Find gardeners near you. The market includes home owners, renters, etc.

How does it work: Click on a button, once visited the site http://yardsprout.heroku.com/, to find local gardeners. Clicking on the button, it will show those who are willing to help.

The other button, for master gardeners, would allow them to create a profile.

Revenue shares include: kits, supplies, licensed widgets, and the like. A similar industry is FTE for flowers.

Saturday at 7

Men suck at planning dates. This new app will help men plan dates.

How does it work:
Needs a service that has authority to make decisions for users. Saturdayat7 is a service for $20 per month. Give basic info like where you live and babysitter information. Fully automated solutions is free.

The service will send an email to the user about scheduling a date. If not confirmed, it will not schedule. If yes, you have two options for a date.

The day of the date, you will get a reminder text. It will include a voice capable service via the phone that will remind you and suggestions for how to make it a better event.

The company would sell framed art for the office. Using an application, art can be added to a room. There would be drag and drop functionality so that users can add art and move it around the room. Users can zoom in for better view, change the frame color, and the like.

This service is for those individuals who would like to make some extra money by teaching people how to do things. Things like building a web site, learning to tango, or change oil in the car. This site connects teachers to students.

How it works:
Will start with local schools and students in the area (RTP). Revenue comes in from a fee from teachers. Revenue also comes from advertising.

A service that helps salesman connect with those potential clients. The biggest problem with B2B is finding and getting connect to clients. How is this different than LinkedIn? The company controls the quality of connections.

Final Results & Awards

After 18 presentations, below are the final results.

1st Place: Yardsprout ($200 Credit on Amazon)

2nd Place: Do the Data

3rd Place: Knackeo

Honorable Mentions: The Breakup Button, The Social Value, and Spotlisted